Re: [Goanet] The Odd, The Strange and The Ugly

The "bizarre" incidents I collected in that post were by no means headlines, front page or breaking news. They were just sidelined pieces, humorous to me which is why I thought them repetition-worthy. Before laying the blame at the door of western media your favourite whipping child, note

Re: [Goanet] The Odd, The Strange and The Ugly

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Frederick FN Noronha wrote: > Today, competitive pressures, the tabloidisation of news and the closing > down of newspapers specially in the West (among other factors) are pushing > the media to focus on the bizarre. If they told you about the perfectly > normal

Re: [Goanet] The Odd, The Strange and The Ugly

On 27 May 2016 at 11:25, Roland wrote: > This is the way the world was in the early morning of Friday, May 27. Correction: this is the way the media you read (or listen to) told you the world was. On Friday, May 27. Today, competitive pressures, the tabloidisation of

[Goanet] The Odd, The Strange and The Ugly

A man in Saudi Arabia shot dead a Jordanian Doctor who had helped to deliver his child. Several days after the birth, he called the doctor to thank him, but shot him dead instead. He was hopping mad that a female doctor or nurse could not be found to do the job. A man sitting on a squat toilet